[wellard]

Originally posted by Dirty Meg: quote: Originally posted by wellard: Obviuosly you have yet to get your head around the concept of BAN There will be NO bars or restaurants with smoking allowed, therefore there is NO competition too no smoking bars or restaurants.

If there is only one no smoking bar in a city, it has no competition for the anti-smoking market. If there is a smoking ban, the same bar is competing with every other bar in the city for the anti-smoking market.
I'm not sure how economics works on your planet, but here on Earth, you can't increase the demand for something by increasing the supply. [/QUOTE] As mentioned before I thought the concept of a BAN was simple but maybe I was wrong. The laws of economics become irrelevant dirty meg when one of the options becomes banned

Example...
In NSW there are no restaurants or cafe offering smoking areas because they have been banned for about 4 years now. *Looks through the phone book for a smoking allowed cafe and finds none* The supply and demand for smoking / no smoking becomes irrelevant because there is NO cafe which is allowed a smoking area! So in a nutshell even on my planet, market forces for or against smoking, are irrelevant. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

What is relevant is that drug addicted smokers only make up about a 1/4 of the population and are quickly dying out. Thankfully those of us who like to breathe fresh air will be doing so in full smoke free bars soon. Leaving others, maybe like yourself, to FUME all they want to outside